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Ilze Meistere, a spokeswoman for the Food and Veterinary Service, told LETA that the bacteria can cause severe diarrhea and hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS).

The Food and Veterinary Service has issued a warning to consumers, advising not to eat Majas Desa sausages made by Biovela. The expiry date of these sausages is January 22, 2017 and the barcode is 4770118401377.

Biovela has promised to recall all the contaminated sausages from stores by the end of this day.

Representatives of Latvia’s largest retail chains Maxima, Rimi, Aibe and Top! said they had no such product in their stores. The Biovela sausages in question have not been available in Rimi and Maxima stores for some time already, and they have now been removed from Aibe stores as well. Representatives of the Top! grocery chain admitted that some stores of the chain had been selling the product, but that the sausages have been removed thanks to the supplier’s quick response.

The Food and Veterinary Service has reported the food contamination case to the Lithuanian Food and Veterinary Service and also the EU Rapid Alert System for Food Products.